Jagunmolu Baba Oluwide Omojola I can hardly describe the shock when I learnt of Baba Oluwide’s death, a few hours back. He was undoubtedly one of the most passionate and committed revolutionary that I ever met. Better known as Baba Omojola, he was one for who struggle for and with the working people was indeed life as a whole itself. Barely two months ago his 75 th birthday (and 60 th year as a revolutionary) was celebrated by comrades at The Yard in Ikeja. I delayed my journey to Benin Republic that day, as I could not imagine missing the programme, to arrive at Cotonu very late in the night, to Baba’s delight. It was my intention to write a tribute which would also engage with the paper presented by Dr Onyekpere at the programme that espoused a developmentalist state pathway to socialist transformation. But alas, with so many items to engage with and the practical work of organising, I had to put this aside. I would not have imagined that less than two months later Jagunm...
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OCTOBER 12 AFRICAN MARXISM 2013 DAY @Johannesburg, SA
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AFRICAN MARXISM DAY 2013 October 12, 2013 @Khanya College hosted by Keep Left, SA Time Session VENUE Theme Speakers 9.30am-11.30am Opening Rally Main Hall (2 nd Floor) An Era of Crises and Revolts Baba Aye (Nigeria) and Munya Gwisai (Zimbabwe) 11.45am-1.15pm BREAKAWAY SESSIONS Main Hall The Arc of National Liberation Movements; from Sankara to the ANC and beyond Mondli Hlatswayo (RSA) 7 th Floor Theatre Black Liberation Thinkers “What matters is...to change the world”; Frantz Fanon’s relevance to class struggle Mosa (SA) 1 st Floor Egypt 2013: What have we learned about the process of Revolution since Russia 1917? Claire Ceruti (SA) 1.15pm-2.00pm LUNCH BREAK BREAKAWAY SESSIONS Main Hall Lenin: the State, Revolution and Organi...